Hi Statalisters,

I have a basic question. I want to convert variable "srcdate" from numeric to string. However, because this numeric variable is text-form without any value label, so I cannot use -decode- and -tostring- code. Does anyone have a more decent solution?

Code:
* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input long srcdate
19358
21549
21184
18382
19358
18627
18992
18474
18839
21549
end
format %d srcdate
Thanks in advanced.